[Open-scap] getting started with source (autoconf on OSX)

[Steve Grubb]

On Wednesday, October 19, 2011 08:37:48 PM Jan Ruzicka wrote:
> Then, I tried ...
> $./autogen.sh
> 
> that gave me:
> lib/Makefile.am:47: GL_GENERATE_ALLOCA_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> lib/Makefile.am:118: GL_GENERATE_ERRNO_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> lib/Makefile.am:151: GL_GENERATE_FLOAT_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> lib/Makefile.am:220: GL_GENERATE_STDDEF_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> lib/Makefile.am:249: GL_GENERATE_STDINT_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> 
> It seems like issue, but I don't know how to get around it.

When a make file uses a definition that gets filled in during configure, it needs to be 
done from an AM_CONDITIONAL macro. For example, in m4/alloca.m4, we see:
AM_CONDITIONAL([GL_GENERATE_ALLOCA_H], [test -n "$ALLOCA_H"])
This means something is going wrong with the m4 processing.

-Steve


> The ./configure runs, but fails with:
> checking for gcry_check_version in -lgcrypt... no
> configure: error: library 'gcrypt' is required for GCrypt.
> 
> Is the gcrypt referring to the libgcrypt library from gnupg?
> 
> It got a bit further by pointing to macports lib directory.
>           (LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib ./configure 
> --includedir=/opt/local/include)
> 
>            it couldn't find libapt-pkg  (macport for apt doesn't compile
> for me now) Other missing are:   blkid, libnl-1, libselinux, rpm (even
> with macport installed)
> 
> Did anybody else try to compile on OS X? any tips how to proceed?
> 
> 
> Jan
> 
> checking for perl... /opt/local/bin//perl
> checking for atomic builtins... no
> configure: !!! Compiler does not support atomic builtins. Atomic operation
> will be emulated using mutex-based locking. !!! ./configure: line 21255:
> syntax error near unexpected token `probe_dir,"${libexecdir}/openscap"'
> ./configure: line 21255: ` EXPAND_DIR(probe_dir,"${libexecdir}/openscap")'
> 
> configure:21041: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -pipe -std=c99 -W -Wall -Wnonnull
> -Wshadow -Wformat -Wundef -Wno-unused-parameter -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wno-unknown-pragmas -D_GNU_SOURCE -DOSCAP_THREAD_SAFE -D_POSIX
> _C_SOURCE=200112L  -march=i686  -L/opt/local/lib conftest.c  >&5
> conftest.c:1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction
> set
> 
> 
> 
> aclocal (GNU automake) 1.11.1
> 
> 
> 
> Jan Ruzicka
> Senior Software Engineer
> Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation
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